The Insatiable Volt Sisters, Rachel Eve Moulton
The Insatiable Volt Sisters, Rachel Eve Moulton
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The Insatiable Volt Sisters

Author: Rachel Eve Moulton

Narrator: various narrators, Janet Metzger, Nancy Peterson, Erin deWard, Amanda Stribling, Chelsea Stephens

Unabridged: 12 hr 4 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 04/04/2023

Categories: Fiction, Horror, Women

Synopsis

It’s the summer of 1989, and Beatrice and Henrietta Volt are coming of age on remote Fowler Island, their ancestral home and wild playground. Thicker than thieves, the sisters plot their futures, having no idea that their parents are separating. Or that the plan is to separate them.Ten years pass before Henrie gets a desperate call from her sister―their father has died suddenly and B.B. needs her to come back to the island for the funeral. But Henrie doesn’t want to go back. She’s barely put the island and all those rumors about missing women behind her. And isn’t it odd that she remembers nothing at all about the night she left? And why is she suddenly filled with fear about the quarry pond behind the house?Told from the perspectives of four flawed, fascinating women, this book is a lush, enthralling fable about monsters real and imagined.From the unbounded imagination of Rachel Eve Moulton, the critically acclaimed author of Tinfoil Butterfly, comes another eerie, terrifying exploration of family and legacy: Will the Volt sisters inherit the horrors of their past or surpass them?

About Rachel Eve Moulton

Rachel Eve Moulton is the author of Tinfoil Butterfly, which was shortlisted for the 2019 Shirley Jackson Award and longlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize. Her work has appeared in Chicago Quarterly Review, Bryant Literary Review, and Southwest Review, among other publications.

About Janet Metzger

Janet Metzger, an Earphones Award–winning narrator, has performed as a stage, television, voice, and film actor and as a jazz vocalist in hotels and supper clubs. For five years she was the voice of Headline News, now HLN, during which time she also promoted features and news stories for CNN and CNN International. She is a graduate of Florida State University.

About Nancy Peterson

Nancy Peterson is a voice talent and audiobook narrator who won the prestigious Audie Award for best narration in 2018.

About Erin deWard

Erin deWard is an Audie Award-winning audiobook narrator and a classically trained stage actor. She is a longtime company member of The Strange Bedfellows, a Rockland County, New York-based Shakespeare company, and can be found directing, assisting another director, or on the lighting board for The Children's Shakespeare Theatre in Rockland County, New York. Erin has been working in the field of Audio Description (media accessibility for people who are blind) as a writer, voice talent, advocate, and trainer for over a decade. She is a proud and grateful member of SAG/AFTRA.

About Amanda Stribling

Amanda Stribling grew up as a musical theater/show-choir girl and went on to pursue a journalism degree from the University of Tennessee. She loves all things performance and often lends her voice to audiobook productions. A southern girl, she currently resides with her husband and twins in Nashville, Tennessee.

About Chelsea Stephens

Chelsea Stephens is an experienced voice actor with a talent for mystery, sci-fi, and YA novels. She won an AudioFile Earphones Award for her narration of Pale Horse, Pale Rider by Katherine Anne Porter. She has a longtime love and appreciation for the performing arts, with experience in onstage acting, singing, and voice-over. Her love for reading books and the pursuit of the story led her to narration. She enjoys unfolding characters and bringing listeners into new worlds.

Reviews

Goodreads review by John on May 31, 2024

My complete review of The Insatiable Volt Sisters is published at Grimdark Magazine. The Insatiable Volt Sisters is the second horror novel published by Rachel Eve Moulton, following up on her debut, Tinfoil Butterfly, which was shortlisted for the Shirley Jackson Award. In The Insatiable Volt Sisters......more

Goodreads review by Angyl on March 23, 2024

The Insatiable Volt Sisters is a solid horror story about generational trauma, a cursed island, and the strong bond between family. The story is told from four different alternating perspectives, with an alternating dual timeline. In the year 1989, sisters Henrietta & Beatrice are growing up on Fowl......more

Goodreads review by Syn on July 02, 2023

A fantastic summer horror set on an island in the strange and mysterious Lake Eerie. Two sisters, a dark family secret, disappearing women, and a house that is haunted. I love water themed horror, horror by the sea, in the sea, in a lake, by the lake. Give me the element of water as a prominent featu......more

Goodreads review by Barbara on May 11, 2023

The Insatiable Volt Sisters was a great, Gothic story, about sisterly love, family loyalty, and monsters! I throughly enjoyed this novel. It did drag for a bit but the ending was great.......more

Goodreads review by Alex on April 21, 2023

Thank you to Netgalley and the publishers for an advance review copy of this book in exchange for my honest review. Out April 4, 2023. 4 stars This story completely engulfed me, I was so interested to see where it was going. The story of these sisters who grow up on a dreary island seeped in lore and d......more

Quotes

“A novel full of disappearing women, disturbing monsters, a haunted house, and a lot of guilt…This mesmerizing novel constantly reminds readers that we often have no clue what’s really going on.” New York Times

“[A] complex updating of many beloved Gothic tropes.” Toronto Star

“Being a teenage girl is rough enough. Now try growing up on an isolated island where murderous dangers lurk and unsettling mysteries are commonplace.” NPR.org

“This vivid and masterful domestic horror novel…expertly balances hope and dread as the tension builds to a fever pitch. Readers will be hooked.” Publishers Weekly (starred review)

“This is a powerful supernatural horror novel about strong women and the pain that shapes them.” Library Journal

“Readers will be hooked by the place and its dark history…A timely, haunting fable about women fighting back and uniting to defeat their demons.” Booklist

“Has all the elements you could want in a thriller―missing women, a mysterious mansion, monsters, ghosts, and, at its center, a pair of sisters as unsettling as the Blackwoods of Shirley Jackson’s We Have Always Lived in the Castle.” Kirkus Reviews

"Pure nightmare fuel.” Gus Moreno, author of This Thing between Us

“Weird and exhilarating and funny and sad and disturbing and scary and poignant and righteous.” Paul Tremblay, author of The Pallbearers Club

“A ferociously reimagined fairy tale of cursed birthrights, guarded family history, and the lure of a mythic, monstrous place called home.” Nova Ren Suma, author of The Walls around Us

Awards

  • New York Times Best Book of the Year
  • Voice Arts Award
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